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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 19h

CHLORINE x ROGUE

In order to join a girlboss cult to climb the corporate ladder, Lillian has a choice—wreck what’s left of her family or ruin her budding relationship with the cult leader.

ft:
🦊1 ghostly fox
💔2 toxic sapphics
🧍‍♀️3 complicated sisters

#DVPit #A #CON #H #MR #WF #Asian #LGBT #POC

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 20h

👀👀 shady soulmate business? I'm hooked!

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 22h

ahhhh thanks!!

tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 22h

CHLORINE x ROGUE

All Lillian and her sisters have left of their mother are her bestselling picture books. Now the fox spirit from the books has come to life and is haunting Lillian.

#DVPit #A #CON #H #MR #WF #Asian #LGBT #POC

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 1d

!!!💖💖💖💖

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 1d

ahhhh thank you!! 💖

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 1d

yayyy another jjk fan in the wild! your book sounds really cool too 👀

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 1d

ROGUE x JUJUTSU KAISEN

A weatherwoman wants to join a girlboss cult to maximize her influence in the age of weather apps. Too bad a ghostly nine-tailed fox makes her go viral for the wrong reasons.

#DVPit #A #H #MR #WF #Asian #LGBT #POC

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 25d

update: my mother has deemed the zucchini bread yummy, life goal achieved

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 25d

Celebrating my fresh-baked story in the latest issue of @pinchjournal.bsky.social about a demonic suburban PTA bake sale by making some zucchini bread!

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Aug 9

Hey Weirdos, LONGFORM SUBMISSIONS (20k+ & Weird Forms) ARE OPEN!

2 notes:
1.) We close again at the end of August TO ALL BUT BIPOC WRITERS for Sept & Oct. Please be respectful of this, thankya.
2.) This is for publication in 2027 or later.

Deets here: tenebrouspress.com/submissions

Hails🖤☠️

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P. H. Low (THESE DEATHLESS SHORES) @ph-low.com · Jul 14

i've been chewing on this essay for a long time ~ deeply grateful to @ruadanbooks.bsky.social for giving it a home and to @mariahaskins.com for her careful editing 💚

ruadanbooks.com/missing-myth...

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · Jul 2

ahhh thank you so much!! still shook over it haha

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · Jul 2

Huge surprise to find that I made it onto the longlist with my trippy music video micro! ty to the editors @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for seeing something special in this piece :)

maudlinhouse.net/the-pop-star...

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · Jun 25

a minion with a surprised look on his face and the word woohoo written below him

ALT: a minion with a surprised look on his face and the word woohoo written below him

media.tenor.com

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · Jun 25

💖💖💖💖💖

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · Jun 25

thank you!

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · Jun 24

I’ve loved being part of Split Lip the past few years, and I’m stoked for the new role and to be part of the amazing team here!

Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jun 24

Exciting News!! ✨ We have promoted 🌟 super stars 🌟 Tina Zhu, Michael Simonds, and Molly Andrea-Ryan to Assistant Fiction Editor! We are over the moon about this news! Thank you for all you do for SLM & the literary community, Tina, Michael, & Molly! 😘

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · Jun 9

Honored and hype as hell to have THE CRAWLING MOON as a finalist for the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social 🌕 (and what great company the book is in!)

www.shirleyjacksonawards.org

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, edited by Sofia Ajram (Ghoulish Books)

The Crawling Moon, edited by dave ring (Neon Hemlock)

Monsters in the Mills, edited by Christa Carmen and L.E. Daniels (IP [Interactive Publications Pty Ltd])

The White Guy Dies First, edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Publishing Group)

Why Didn’t You Just Leave, edited by Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin (Cursed Morsels Press)

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Jun 3

1/7 daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: The Crawling Moon edited by @davering.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social)
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

Book cover for The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread edited by Dave Ring‬ (Neon Hemlock‬), where the moon and trees are drawn within a frame so the whole suggests a skull. Contributors include Sage Agee‬, Bendi Barrett‬, Winifred Burton‬, Amelia Burton, Jess Cho, Lyndall Clipstone‬, Donyae Coles, Dare Segun Falowo, Caro Jansen, Yeonsoo Kim, Marianne Kirby‬, M.L. Krishnan‬, Jes Malitoris‬, Chris McCartney, KC Mead-Brewer‬, Suzan Palumbo‬, Hailey Piper‬, E. Saxey‬, Jordan Shiveley‬, Caitlin Starling‬, Natalia Theodoridou‬, v.f. Thompson, E. Catherine Tobler‬, Shaoni C. White, Cynthia Zhang‬, and Tina Zhu‬.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-crawling-moon

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jun 2

the em dash has grown in popularity over the last 20 years or so and is thus over represented in the data sets they trained the fraud machine on and now we are supposed to tell people to stop using them because they were finding them useful, it's idiocy all the way down

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Jun 2

Dashes are very normal parts of written English and are "AI tells" mostly because they were left off default keyboard configurations and thus are annoying to type in casual writing relative to how often they're used in professional writing.

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · May 23

Thank you! 💕💕

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · May 21

OK let's do this.

I wanted to do a newsletter that felt fresh and fun to me, and "Undercover in the Apocalypse" is that creature - an epistolary science fiction story addressed to an army of shadow operatives.

I hope you'll join me on this covert mission.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io

Undercover in the Apocalypse

Covert dispatches from Sam J. Miller on craft, community, and surviving nightmare times.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · May 22

thank you!! 🎉🎉

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